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Microsoft Store No Longer Accepts Bitcoins As Payment (techtimes.com)

Posted by timothy on from the just-slip-the-money-in-the-floppy-drive dept.

westlake writes: It may come as a surprise to many here [but not all! -- Ed.], but back in December 2014, Microsoft began accepting Bitcoin.as payments for apps, games, and music purchased through the Windows Store, for its Win 10, Windows Phone and Xbox customers. Big-ticket items like MS Office were excluded. The service has been quietly discontinued. Crypto-currencies may excite the geek, but the Windows Store is mass-market and middle class, and the interest just might not be there.

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  1. Hey buddy... by ai4px · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hey Buddy, I'd like to buy your software with my bitcoins, but the smallest coin I have is $413USD.... How the hell do you make change with the smallest integer amount of a bit coin is $413.16???? That is the problem with bitcoins... they can't be subdivided and there just aren't enough of them for each person on earth to have even ONE.

  2. Re:"...and interest just might not be there..." by GLMDesigns · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    What is farcical about bitcoin?

    The blockchain?

    Proof of transfer of ownership of a digital item?

    Electronic commerce?

    A distributed ledger?

    Or is it the non-fiat money part?

    There's a lot to bitcoin. You sound like a someone in the 1990s who calls the internet a toy and that it would never be part of "real" business.

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